Mother Love: Stories about Births, Babies and BeyondDebra Adelaide Birth: a rite of passage in which a woman is transformed from a well-groomed, well-organised, self-centered, carefree, childfree person into the exhausted, poo-wiping, milk-sodden, love -ravaged hero that is a new mother. Gabrielle Carey Motherlove: Births, Babies and Beyond is a wonderful collection of stories and memories from women writing about their own and others' births, their babies, and their lives beyond the moment of childbirth, when the world changed forever. Each of the writers invite the reader into their own unique world of Motherlove, that most extraordinary of loves that only mothers can experience and truly understand. The smells, the pain, the power and powerlessness, the joys, the utter exhaustion and the exhilaration, and the incredible love. Sometimes sad and moving, sometimes practical and funny, these are stories that will enthrall and delight every reader. |
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Page 56
... hear The Doors . You only hear him scream when they cut the song , when he's forced under a cold shower by the soldiers who come to collect him for his mission . There is no escaping the terror ... and it is not long before my small ...
... hear The Doors . You only hear him scream when they cut the song , when he's forced under a cold shower by the soldiers who come to collect him for his mission . There is no escaping the terror ... and it is not long before my small ...
Page 63
... hear Deirdre say as she squashes down behind me . It is too late . I feel an intense searing . And there is a baby's cry . I hear the cry , but I do not really understand what it means until Deirdre passes a tiny blood - covered baby ...
... hear Deirdre say as she squashes down behind me . It is too late . I feel an intense searing . And there is a baby's cry . I hear the cry , but I do not really understand what it means until Deirdre passes a tiny blood - covered baby ...
Page 238
... hears her daughter , with her nightgown soaked and her breasts aching , she thinks of the house on the hill and the big old trees surrounding it . Knowing ... hear with a perpetual hum in your ears , but the things you 238 DOROTHY JOHNSTON.
... hears her daughter , with her nightgown soaked and her breasts aching , she thinks of the house on the hill and the big old trees surrounding it . Knowing ... hear with a perpetual hum in your ears , but the things you 238 DOROTHY JOHNSTON.
Common terms and phrases
Anna arms asked baby Banaga birth centre blood body born breastfeeding breasts breath Cath centimetres cervix child childbirth Constance Markiewicz contractions Darren daughter death adder Deirdre doctor door dream epidural everything experience eyes face fear feel felt floor forceps freshwater crocodile Fyshwick Gavin girl give birth Grandma's grandmother hair hands hear home birth hospital Hughie husband Ina May Gaskin inside Judy knew labour laugh legs light lives look Melissa midwife milk minutes Miriam months morning mother Mowangka nappy never night NONI HAZLEHURST nurse obstetrician oxytocin pain pethidine placenta pregnancy pulled push realised remember Rosie says scream seemed Sheila Kitzinger sleep smell smile someone Sophie Steve story stroller talk tell There's things thought tiny told turned waiting walk warm watch weeks woman women wonder worry Yawuru
References to this book
Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians Michele Grossman No preview available - 2003 |